New Animation for Animated Series

[Panem et circenses]

I know this will never happen due to the money involved and the time it would take.

But, would people want to see updated animation for TAS? The same sound track but new hand-drawn or CGI animation? Or do people like the 70s filmation nostalgia?

I'm watching it for the first time and was just thinking this to myself. Wondered what other people thought.

 

[2takesfrakes]

TAS would definitely benefit from improved animation, but I would keep the look - the style - of it the same. Not so much out of nostalgia, but because it really is cute and it works, on that level. But definitely, go back in and enhance layouts, put in more material and give it some more momentum, if that's possible. The show's still going to be too talky, I'm not sure what'll fix that? Perhaps trim a bit off the episodes, maybe as much as five minutes worth, so it doesn't just plod along, as it already does. The thing's got to move ...

 

[DeepSpaceYorks]

I think the animation is simple but charming. Nostalgia always wins out in my mind.

 

[johnnybear]

As long as they get the uniforms colour right! Thing was the star on their chests was a little too large I always thought as well!
JB

 

[F. King Daniel]

Nope. Reanimate it and I fear it'll just draw attention to the often weak/phoned in voice work. TAS works (such as it does) as-is.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

No.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Fixing the animation won't fix many of the stories, which were real stinkers. Nor will it fix some of the stiff voice acting.

 

[Relayer1]

Yes.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Personally, I'd love to see someone give the idea a whirl. It might turn out really well - or it could be horrible, but even if so, it isn't like doing it a new way would destroy people's ability to watch it the old way if they preferred, so...

 

[Lance]

It is what it is, and it's not even the absolute worst of Saturday morning animation from that era I've seen.

That said, I agree with 2takesfrakes that if they were gonna do it, I'd favour keeping the same visual 'style', because I think it actually works for TAS. Maybe improve the animation, make the "
"camera" less static or something, but as far as the characters go I think they look fine how they are.

 

[3D ChessMaster]

The chief value of TAS is in the plots some of which one can imagine could have been TOS episodes but for cost and time.
'Yesteryear or Lorelei Signal' come to my mind as examples.

The animation is so primitive by modern standards or indeed compared to Disney of 75 years ago that some fresh animation could certainly improve the experience though.

 

[DeepSpaceYorks]

They should reanimate it in the style and design of TMP if they were to redo it.

 

[UnknownSample]

I thought no, why bother, but then thought... someday, the fact that we have the original actors' voices in them will make TAS a precious thing, no matter how bad the episodes are. That day hasn't come yet. Give it another generation or so. By then, animation may also have advanced so much that they could come up with breathtaking visuals of planet surfaces etc., and more naturalistic movements in the characters....

Not now. All anyone could do now is make a more respectable looking version, something less embarrassing. So not worth it yet.

 

[Tosk]

I'm all for it. But if you're gonna re-animate it, maybe do some new voice recording for it too so I don't have to hear Doohan and Barrett playing every damn secondary character ever.

 

[wayne66]

I say yes. New animation. I would be okay with keeping it similar to the original animation style. Just give it more detail. Correct the color mistakes. Don't have a character in two places at the same time, etc. I would like to see Walter Koenig brought back into the series to play Chekhov. Also give the guest starring roles to different actors. Keep some of James Doohan's better parts, but lets diversify the voice pool. One more thing, Please reanimate the computer games from the 1990s (25th anniversary edition, Judgment Rites and the unreleased Secret of Vulcan Fury) and add them to TAS as the 5th year of the five year mission.

 

[kkt]

I dunno. TAS was so limited by the half hour length and the Saturday morning little kids time slot, I'm not sure it would be worth redoing the animation. The good episodes stand on their own, notwithstanding budget 1970s animation. The money and effort redoing them would be better spent on new projects.

 

[STIntergalactic]

When is Ptrope going to finish that Star Trek Reanimated of The Time Trap?

 

[Warped9]

If you have ever watched a number of series (with a half hour format) from the 1950s to early '60s you can clearly see that 25 minutes should not hamper telling an effective drama story.

 

[Ssosmcin]

If you have ever watched a number of series (with a half hour format) from the 1950s to early '60s you can clearly see that 25 minutes should not hamper telling an effective drama story.

Any viewing of Have Gun Will Travel proves that. I'm addicted to that series. Nice, taut half hour shows, often very powerful.

 

[Kor]

I do enjoy half-hour radio or TV drama series, but I have always felt that they didn't quite have the "meat" of a full hour show such as Star Trek or Mission: Impossible.

Kor